Martin Taillefer Email and Phone Number

I am pleased to begin this phase of my career serving as Chief Oceanographer for the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command - Plans and Requirements at the Directorate of Meteorology and Oceanography.

I was employed as the Senior Data Analysts and Project Officer for the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges. CFMETR is a maritime test facility located on the east side of Vancouver Island, at Nanoose Bay. The analysis and projects that I was involved used the three-dimensional sonar tracking system data for monitoring the performance and position of objects on the range (Area WG). The 3D data allowed me to design software codes to produce extensive analysis of underwater targets and torpedo performances.

In my brief work period at ASL before the COVID interruption, I managed a noise analysis project of the Leviathan gas field's pipelines for Noble Energy. The gas field is located in the Israeli EEZ, approximately 130 km off the shores of Haifa, facilitated by 4 subsea wells that are connected, via a subsea manifold and two 120 km long pipelines. The analysis was intended to understand the propagation of pipeline noises when the wells are in full production & operations.

In 2010, I stood up a new oceanography and ocean acoustics company, Maritime Way Scientific that grew into a leading underwater acoustics analysis company in Canada. Along with over 200 projects in 8 years, I continued to foster my expertise in underwater warfare and systems. Along with the many projects, we delivered a 600 page report to the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) showing results of an acoustic modelling study that estimates the received sound levels and potential harm to animals in the sea due to seismic bottom surveys. In addition, we worked with the US Dept of Homeland Security to develop a detection and monitoring system to track and hunt narcotics-subs (narco-subs) off the coast of Colombia and Central America.

I have been actively involved with the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) since 2006, serving for three years as Chair of the Ottawa CMOS Centre and was National President in 2016-17. I was co-founder of the Arctic Special Interest Group and was a strong proponent of the present CMOS Strategic and Business plan to ensure CMOS sustainability for many years to come.

In 2006, I moved on to the Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) as a Senior Oceanographer. My portfolios was mainly devoted to ocean modelling and space-based remote sensing. I was one of the Technical Advisor for RADARSAT-II SAR satellite and for the Offshore Oceanographic Science Vessel (OOSV) design and acoustic support. Most notably, I co-authored and drafted the collaboration agreement (MOU) for The Canadian Operational Network of Coupled Environmental PredicTion Systems (CONCEPTS). This is a collaboration between Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and the Department of National Defence (DND). The network works to develop and implement computer models that support ocean-ice forecasting advancements.

In 2001, I retired from the Royal Canadian Navy and began working at General Dynamics (GD) Canada, while continuing to study acoustics and sonar design at Penn State (2003-04). At GD Canada, I worked on the Swedish HYDRA Underwater Warfare Suite & Program, coordinating the installation of sonar suite aboard the Swedish Navy Göteborg Corvette class vessel, at the Muskö Naval Base. In addition worked on the Aurora Upgrade program as a Integrated Logistics Systems Engineer.

Joined the Royal Canadian Navy and served on several Canadian and America Warships over a 20-year career. Most of my career was devoted to anti-submarine warfare and tactics. In 1997, I was appointed as the Pacific Fleet Oceanographer - specializing in environmental analysis for Anti-Submarine Warfare. I have extensive operational experience in applying his subject-matter-expertise and knowledge in the oceanographic tactical domain which involved in over 35 submarine prosecutions, a combination of exercise and real-world scenarios culminating to the end of the Cold War.